Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

[Mikolaj Konarski]

Resending, since Roman's and Kyril's email addresses were mangled/missing.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Darren
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> Excellent!  We have a Windows Task Force, consisting roughly of the folk in
> cc.  So they would be the first group to ask.
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> (I think it would be very helpful to have a Windows Task Force home page, so
> that it’s easier to find the group.)
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> thanks for helping with Windows.
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> Simon
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> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Darren
> Grant
> Sent: 15 February 2015 07:36
> To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> Subject: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues
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> Hi all,
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> I notice there are a series of related long-standing issues subject to
> particular cygwin64 quirks, and I'd like to offer time to help resolve these
> if possible
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> At this point I've had some exposure to the GHC build process (7.8.3), and
> have poked around the GHC linker to gain some low level insight.
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> Would anyone be available to fill me in on the current state of affairs with
> mingw64 GHCi linking? For instance, is there ongoing work, or perhaps a
> preferred direction but no available developer bandwidth to proceed?
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> Thank you.
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> Cheers,
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> Darren
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